Minerva for the Emergency Services

By exploiting the latest satellite communications and GSM technology, Minerva has genuine ‘go anywhere’ nationwide capability, meaning that collaborative training exercises can take place across several brigade and force areas at the same time without the need for any fixed, ground-based infrastructure – the operational area can become the training ground.

Training personnel to get the best when working cooperatively and achieve success – against any incident– is a growing challenge for today’s trainers, especially when set against the background of budgetary constraints, restrictions on risk to service personnel and the public, and scarce yet necessary resources.

Minerva addresses these challenges by mirroring this multi-strand, operational approach and integrating instrumented emergency equipment and ‘real’ personnel out in the brigade or force area, with personnel operating a range of virtual critical hardware, thus enabling a fully-immersive, operational training experience to take place in real time.

Remote Representation – The Minerva system enables the user to take the simulated environment out of the ‘class room’ and into the real world. Minerva offers a range of remote synthetic interaction systems that offer the same look and feel as real equipment, but represent the synthetic environment. Examples of these include synthetic UAV emulators and complex observation systems that can be deployed in exactly the same way as the real equipment and therefore enable the user to train in a live, virtual and constructive environment, just as if they are using the real equipment.

The Minerva system is unique in that it is not tied to any infrastructure, can be deployed anywhere in the world and is designed to work out of the box.